Living with Picasso is the most intimate and revealing portrait of Picasso ever written. For almost ten years, Françoise Gilot lived with the great painter and had two children with him. Her book is a description of these eventful years, full of surprises and tenderness.
Françoise Gilot, a painter herself, describes in detail all the aspects of the artistic creation of this man overflowing with ideas, imagination and contradictory impulses. But it is also Picasso, the man, who appears here: the everyday companion, the irascible being, the partisan, the father full of anguish for his son, the superstitious creator...
Around him, some of the great men of his time: Matisse, Gertrude Stein, Eluard, Gide, Cocteau, Miró, Chaplin... We see Picasso confront and astutely deal with both the art dealers and the Nazis, who forbade any exhibition of his work during the Occupation, and also discover other characters from his inner circle, where the subtlety of Georges Braque stands out.
About the author:
Françoise Gilot was born in 1921 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. From 1941 to 1945, she studied drawing and painting in the studios of Endre Rozsda, Jean Souverbie and the Julian and Section d'Or academies. His works, which brought him great renown, have been exhibited on numerous occasions since 1950 in Paris (La Hune, Louise Leiris, Coard galleries), Lyon (Folklore gallery), London (The Mayor Gallery), various salons and exhibitions: Surindépendants, Salon de mai, Salon des Tuileries, École de Paris, Charpentier gallery, David Findlay gallery (New York, 1965).
In addition, Françoise Gilot illustrated books by Paul Éluard, André Miguel and Jacques Prévert, and in 1953 Janine Charrat commissioned her to design the models for her ballet Héraclès at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. The Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris and New York, as well as private collections in France, the United States, England, Sweden and Japan, exhibit paintings by Françoise Gilot.